Something is amiss. BTW i can reboot and use networking and login as a user or root, but there are lots of errors during bootup and when I log in as a normal user. I won't give all those very long errors here. I did check in /boot and there is nothing but lost+found. in lost+found there is nothing i checked lilo *not grub for this install* lilo.conf image=/boot/kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 label=gentoo read-only root=/dev/ram0 append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.26-gentoo-r9 I can't do a reboot now as I'm emerging apache. Just for clarification, I post re: gentoo and slackware and fedora 3 the gentoo box is separate from the slackware/fedora issues. mike h however i can reboot w/out any problems at all. i have to find out exactly where my kernel is --- Kevin Geiss wrote: > this is kind of frightening... > > typically, /dev/hda1 is your /boot partition! so if > you just created a new filesystem there, your > computer won't boot up next time. > > take a look in /boot, see if there is anything in > there. if not, try this: > > mount /boot > > then look in /boot again. :) > > you want to see a kernel image (either vmlin* or > bzImage*) and a grub/ subdirectory > > if you don't see those, you will need to fix that > partition before you reboot next time. > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:41:31AM -0800, mike hoy > wrote: > > it took about a week i guess. but gentoo is > running. > > stage3 install with genkernel just to make it > easy. > > > > question: after i rebooted I got an error about > the > > file system on /dev/hda1 > > > > not knowing what to do I tried #mke2fs /dev/hda1 > > > > and it worked. but i remember doing that during > the > > install. > > > > any ideas as to why the filesystem on /dev/hda1 > wasn't > > set correctly the first time? > > > > at any rate it did boot up and works now, but just > > curious. > > > > mike h > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss